{"id":2205,"date":"2021-11-18T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:59:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:59:12","slug":"writing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2205","title":{"rendered":"Writing Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/111821_1759_WritingAgai1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>The Christmas season approaches. Each year I write an ancestor&#8217;s biographical sketch to send around to family members. I get these ready every November. In prior years I have completed work on all the great-grandparents and second great-grandparents that I could identify.\n<\/p>\n<p>This year I had intended to move back a generation and begin working on my third great grandparents. I spent about half the year researching one of them, Benjamin E. Dunbar (1776-1851) of Chatham, MA.\n<\/p>\n<p>Then a surprise DNA match arrived over the summer. Suddenly I knew the identity of a previously unknown great-grandfather. This man&#8217;s family branch had been a huge hole in my family tree. Now I had his name.\n<\/p>\n<p>I dropped everything else to learn all I could about him. He became the focus of my biographical sketch for this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>His death certificate and probate file arrived in the mail this month just in time for me to complete my 2021 project. I now have everything I need to tell his story.\n<\/p>\n<p>Soon I will get it printed and send it around to the family in time for Christmas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas season approaches. Each year I write an ancestor&#8217;s biographical sketch to send around to family members. I get these ready every November. In prior years I have completed work on all the great-grandparents and second great-grandparents that I could identify. This year I had intended to move back a generation and begin working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}